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'rafales de râteaux'

English translation: the many/repeated summer brush-offs

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French term or phrase:	\'rafales de râteaux\'
English translation:	the many/repeated summer brush-offs
Entered by:	Hannah Burrow

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20:56 Oct 25, 2011

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Marketing - Other / Promotion for an event organized by a tourism agency

French term or phrase: 'rafales de râteaux'

This is a promotional text for a party being organized by a tourism agency. The context of the above phrase is the following: 'L'occasion rêvée pour parfaire ses techniques de dragues et faire ses armes avant les grandes attaques-et les rafales de râteaux-estivales'.

From my understanding 'rafale' refers to a flurry or onslaught of something, and râteaux, in colloquial language, can mean rejection after someone has made romantic advances. I wonder if anyone could suggest a way of translating this sentence so that it is appropriate to the genre of the text (promotional) and so that the language flows nicely.

Hannah Burrow KudoZ activity Questions: 7 (none open) Answers: 4 United Kingdom
Local time: 07:07

the many/repeated summer brush-offs

Explanation:
but not sure it flows nicely!

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piazza d
France
Local time: 08:07

Grading comment

Thank you! In the end I said 'burst of summer brush-offs' which seemed to fit best in the context-so thank you very much for your suggestion!
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4 +3

the many/repeated summer brush-offs

piazza d

red-hot flurry of cold shoulders

xxxBourth

ripostes

Karen Vincent-Jones

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rafale

meirs

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24 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

the many/repeated summer brush-offs

Explanation:
but not sure it flows nicely!

piazza d
France
Local time: 08:07
Works in field
Native speaker of:

French
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

Thank you! In the end I said 'burst of summer brush-offs' which seemed to fit best in the context-so thank you very much for your suggestion!

10 hrs confidence:

red-hot flurry of cold shoulders

Explanation:
"hot" because it's summer and for the apposition with "cold". Unfortunately it does not capture the "warrior" image. "Red-hot" might evoke the image of hot lead penetrating soft flesh ... which is another metaphor we needn't go in to ...

xxxBourth
Local time: 08:07
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 328

14 hrs confidence:

ripostes

Explanation:
You could retain the military metaphor as far as possible here and say something like "before entering the summer fray with its flurry of (amorous) attacks and ripostes".

Karen Vincent-Jones
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:07
Native speaker of:

English

Reference comments

15 mins peer agreement (net): +1

Reference: rafale

Reference information:
is also used to describe the burst of a machine gun - I hope it helps

meirs
Israel
Native speaker of:

Romanian

Note to reference poster

Asker: Thanks, that does help, I might describe it as a 'burst of brush-offs' or something similar.

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